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The Enterprise + Devices Licensing Engineering team designs and operates the core services that power how Microsoft products are licensed and activated at global scale. Our team is responsible for building highly reliable, secure, and performant systems that underpin Microsoft 365 and Copilot across consumers, businesses, and enterprises worldwide. We sit at the heart of Microsoft’s licensing ecosystem—owning the platforms that enable customers to acquire, activate, and use Microsoft products seamlessly. Our work directly impacts revenue integrity, customer trust, and the ability for teams across Microsoft to innovate and ship at speed. Operating across multiple geographies and partner organizations, the team tackles complex technical and business challenges in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to join the team. If you are passionate about building mission‑critical distributed systems, enjoy working at the intersection of engineering, commerce, and product strategy, and want to influence how Microsoft delivers value to hundreds of millions of customers, this team offers a unique opportunity to make a broad and lasting impact. As Microsoft continues its transformation toward cloud services and AI‑powered experiences, the Licensing Engineering team plays a foundational role in re‑inventing how products are delivered, governed, and scaled—ensuring every customer interaction with Microsoft starts from a trusted, resilient licensing platform.
Job Responsibility:
Lead a team of engineers, with responsibility of deep technical mentorship and career direction of team members
Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of the future architecture for proven highly scalable, resilient, durable, maintainable, performant services and user experiences
Lead and actively participate in the full software development life cycle: Create design and architecture documents
Review artifacts and code
Ensure safe release of updated experiences, with special consideration for security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility
Foster a data driven approach with focus on the customer
Collaborate with multiple teams across Microsoft for joint delivery of customer experiences
Collaborate with multiple functions to drive the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables
Evolve development guidelines, practices, systems, and tools to meet a world where client and services development and delivery is moving faster than ever
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Extensive years of industry experience designing, building, testing, shipping, and maintaining software and services
Solid ability to attract, hire, and retain top talent
Excellent leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
Ability to operate at a high level in a fast paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities and ambiguity
Ability to analyse, interpret, and communicate data to uncover opportunities for improvement
Excellence in software engineering practices - system design, coding, testing, and monitoring, and analytical problem-solving skills
Expertise in building and running proven highly available, highly scalable, reliable, concurrent, distributed systems
Expertise in safe release, deployment and maintenance of cloud services using experimentation and telemetry
Experience with one or more of the following - C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Service Fabric, Web Services, APIs
Passion for making software engineering more efficient by designing and developing solutions at scale and make data driven decisions